I found this mouse, a Logitech mouse with Bluetooth, about six years ago, in a discount bin at Staples. I think it was actually part of a keyboard/mouse combo, but all they had was the mouse and the charging dock. I pretty much only use it at my desk, so, as it’s a laptop, I [...]

I have to confess: I don’t read every e-mail I receive. At work, I literally receive scores of messages a day. “Hundreds” is not unprecedented for me, and I know there are folks who get that regularly. Some of the e-mails are ignored because they are clearly ignorable–automated replies to ticket generation (which I retain [...]

Today, there were several announcements on the cloud computing front. Google announced the long-rumored Google Drive. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s SkyDrive announced expansions to its service with Mac and Widnows clients. This joins services such as Dropbox in enabling users to store files “in the cloud.” All these products work roughly the same way: users can upload [...]

Alan Turing is better known for his contributions to cryptography, efforts which ultimately resulted in the modern computer. What I wasn’t aware of was that he also made contributions to the field of biology. Turing had a hypothesis regarding how the pattern of tigers’ stripes are formed. He thought a pair of morphogens, molecules responsible [...]

I wanted to get everyone’s opinion of QR Codes. I’ve been tumbling this in my head for the last week or two, and wanted to try to get some more feedback. A QR Code is a “two dimensional” barcode. While they have other uses, the most popular is to easily redirect someone to a web [...]

The advantages of being adopted by geeks.

Testing out a new blogging app. Cool!

Since getting my iPad, I’ve been driving towards using eBooks for my book consumption. It’s nice just to grab once thing. I could write a whole post about my experiences with different eBook systems, and I may at some point. A couple months ago, I got a book from the new Google Books service. While [...]

I know many of you are “Vox Refugees,” as the folder in my RSS reader is titled. What started as a great blogging site in 2006 slowly died from neglect, until the plug was ultimately pulled last year. A few months prior, I wrote Vox support, to ask if it was still being maintained. I [...]

Author Neil Gaiman on piracy and its impacts on his sales. Basically: it’s just lending books, and a net gain for him. Via Boing Boing.